Vinifera vines love lime – this is a bizarre lime formation found in our drainage pipes. On the Buchertberg limy sandstones got washed out by rain and the lime gathers in the pipes then. Conclusion: the Buchertberg site is the only slope in this region with limy sediment soils. Vinifera Reben lieben Kalk – dieses …
Vineyards today are much more different as 60 years ago. Between the vine rows farmers culitvated fruit trees (for example vineyard peach trees), vegetables and stuff. To get more diversity into the vineyards again I have put some seeds beside the vineyards and on my vine terraces. These seeds have two characteristics – first: they …
This is part one of the new snapshot series! the flowering of hazelnut bushes is a indicator of the beginning of spring die Haselnussblüte ist ein Indikator für den Frühlingsbeginn Say Cheese! a bat (threatened with extinction) found in our old wine cellar eine Fledermaus (vom Aussterben bedroht) in unserem alten Weinkeller
/ A great view / Ein großartiger Ausblick This is a fascinating view and my thoughts about the region, agriculture, wine growing, people and climate. This beautiful piece of land is and was always deeply connected with other parts of south eastern europe: traditions, culinary, wine growing, grape varieties,… so many similarities. Schauen Sie sich …
/ about the DAC appellation system and about Styria / über das DAC Herkunftssystem und die Steiermark You might heard about the DAC (Districtus Austriae Controllatus) appellation system here in Austria. There are already some available like Weinviertel DAC, Kremstal DAC, or Mittelburgenland DAC. The ambition is to bring light into all those difficult label …
/ to be relaxed and philosophizing at work / entspannt und philosophierend bei der Arbeit Now we got 50 insteed of 15cm (video) of snow. Yes, it’s cold too, but I don’t mind. Pruning is more relaxing in the vineyard than work, except too bad weather. At this work I developed many ideas/philosophies for future …
Something about wild yeast fermentation / etwas über die Spontangärung Every few days I go into my wine cellar and check the wine in the barrels and its yeast still on the bottom. In my cellar everything goes easy – the only yeast which ferments the must here is the one coming from the vineyard …
Early in the morning and covered in snow: here you can see a part of the Buchertberg which is not planted yet. In spring my plan is to plant a very special vineyard here. This will be a unique project and follows the roots of the wine growing region Steiermark. My advise to you – …
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It’s wintertime, -6° Celsius – too cold for pruning vines. But work and developing ideas keeps going on. To think in sustainable cycles means to use own wood for making barrels out of it. For me this is part of my specific terroir. Only the good parts of the tree are used for the barrels, …